Electric Product Value

The sustainable economic value of Electric Products provided by merchant or private Energy Resources to support Power System operations and/or avoid augmentation. 

The value that Electric Products provide the Power System is not static.  In general, their value can be expected to increase where provision is highly correlated with the needs of the Power System at a given time, geographic segment and/or vertical Tier/Layer, which will vary dynamically. 

As decarbonising Power Systems experience increasing Volatility, advanced forms of Operational Coordination will be required to increase the strength of this correlation to enhance the provision of:

  1. Electric Products: The required ‘3Rs’ physics-based service(s): Real Power, Reactive Power, Reserves;
  2. At the right time: days, hours, minutes, seconds, microseconds; and,
  3. Location: At the right geographic segment or vertical Tier/Layer of the Power System.

Given the fast-evolving nature of power system transformation, the Future Grid Accelerator (FGA) has the status of a perpetual BETA version. Your suggestions for how each concept and definition may be enhanced are very welcome.

All feedback will be reviewed and considered for inclusion in subsequent updates.

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